Public pay-as-you-go pensions still form the dominant pillar of old-age provision in Germany. This is in marked … recovery from the Great Recession. It has disadvantages, as Germany will be ageing very rapidly in the near future. Following a …

of the elderly in Japan. Using four waves of individual-level annual data from the Japanese General Social Survey … increasingly more consistent in their support for a government-based social security system in Japan. -- Livelihood of elderly … ; care of elderly ; public attitudes ; aging societies ; Japan …

of expected pension receipt. Current pension policy in Germany runs counter to this insight, though, leading to even …

factor and the increase of the statutory retirement age comprehensive pension reforms have been adopted in Germany in recent … Rente mit 67 wurden in Deutschland in den letzten Jahren umfangreiche Rentenreformen verabschiedet. Diese jüngsten Maßnahmen …

these hypotheses empirically. Employing micro data for Germany we corroborate the first hypothesis with descriptive …